On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:02:46PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-paste, python2-paste): New variables.
Okay. > * gnu/packages/patches/python-paste-remove-timing-test.patch: New file. Okay. > * gnu/packages/patches/python-paste-remove-website-test.patch: New file. Indeed, a strange test. [...] > +(define-public python2-paste > + (package > + (inherit (strip-python2-variant > + (package-with-python2 python-paste))) > + (arguments > + ;; Tests are back for Python 2! > + `(#:python ,python-2 > + #:tests? #t)))) Is it really necessary to specify python-2 here? How about re-using the method you used in python2-anyjson?